The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.

Ultz (Jerusalem)Ultz: Broadway debut 30 years ago: Good at the Booth Theatre. Other U.S. premieres: The Art of Success (MTC), Mojo (Steppenwolf), The Harder They Come (Miami). Most recent designs UK: Jerusalem (Olivier Award); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Off West End Award); Blood and Gifts (National Theatre); Macbeth, Falstaff (Glyndebourne). As an associate artist at Theatre Royal Stratford East, ULTZ develops and directs new pieces of urban music theatre: Jean Genet's play The Blacks Remixed, Da Boyz (a hip-hop version of The Boys From Syracuse) and Pied Piper (Olivier Award).

Mark Wendland (The Merchant of Venice)Mark Wendland: Broadway: Next to Normal, Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: Distracted (Roundabout), Boys Life, Some Men (Second Stage), The Age of Iron, Richard III, Hamlet, The False Servant, The Mysteries (CSC), Unconditional (Labyrinth), Spatter Pattern (Playwrights Horizons), Hot'N'Throbbing (Signature Theatre), Beauty of the Father, Iron (MTC). The Public, Delacorte: Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens. The Public: Satellites, Fucking A, Pericles, A Dybbuk.